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From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) dataset will dramatically alter our understanding of the Universe, from the origins of the Solar System to the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Much of this research…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-05 Katelyn Breivik , Andrew J. Connolly , K. E. Saavik Ford , Mario Jurić , Rachel Mandelbaum , Adam A. Miller , Dara Norman , Knut Olsen , William O'Mullane , Adrian Price-Whelan , Timothy Sacco , J. L. Sokoloski , Ashley Villar , Viviana Acquaviva , Tomas Ahumada , Yusra AlSayyad , Catarina S. Alves , Igor Andreoni , Timo Anguita , Henry J. Best , Federica B. Bianco , Rosaria Bonito , Andrew Bradshaw , Colin J. Burke , Andresa Rodrigues de Campos , Matteo Cantiello , Neven Caplar , Colin Orion Chandler , James Chan , Luiz Nicolaci da Costa , Shany Danieli , James R. A. Davenport , Giulio Fabbian , Joshua Fagin , Alexander Gagliano , Christa Gall , Nicolás Garavito Camargo , Eric Gawiser , Suvi Gezari , Andreja Gomboc , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Matthew J. Graham , Julia Gschwend , Leanne P. Guy , Matthew J. Holman , Henry H. Hsieh , Markus Hundertmark , Dragana Ilić , Emille E. O. Ishida , Tomislav Jurkić , Arun Kannawadi , Alekzander Kosakowski , Andjelka B. Kovačević , Jeremy Kubica , François Lanusse , Ilin Lazar , W. Garrett Levine , Xiaolong Li , Jing Lu , Gerardo Juan Manuel Luna , Ashish A. Mahabal , Alex I. Malz , Yao-Yuan Mao , Ilija Medan , Joachim Moeyens , Mladen Nikolić , Robert Nikutta , Matt O'Dowd , Charlotte Olsen , Sarah Pearson , Ilhuiyolitzin Villicana Pedraza , Mark Popinchalk , Luka C. Popović , Tyler A. Pritchard , Bruno C. Quint , Viktor Radović , Fabio Ragosta , Gabriele Riccio , Alexander H. Riley , Agata Rożek , Paula Sánchez-Sáez , Luis M. Sarro , Clare Saunders , Đorđe V. Savić , Samuel Schmidt , Adam Scott , Raphael Shirley , Hayden R. Smotherman , Steven Stetzler , Kate Storey-Fisher , Rachel A. Street , David E. Trilling , Yiannis Tsapras , Sabina Ustamujic , Sjoert van Velzen , José Antonio Vázquez-Mata , Laura Venuti , Samuel Wyatt , Weixiang Yu , Ann Zabludoff

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Dark Energy Science Collaboration

This white paper describes the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), whose goal is the study of dark energy and related topics in fundamental physics with data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). It provides an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Preparing to discover the unknown with Rubin LSST -- I: Time domain

Perhaps the most exciting promise of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is its capability to discover phenomena never before seen or predicted from theory: true astrophysical novelties, but the ability of LSST to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Xiaolong Li , Fabio Ragosta , William I. Clarkson , Federica B. Bianco

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1

We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single epoch images, coadded images, coadded source catalogs, and associated products and services assembled over the first three years of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , O. Ballester , M. Banerji , W. Barkhouse , L. Baruah , M. Baumer , K. Bechtol , M . R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , V. Busti , R. Campisano , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. C arnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , X. Chen , C. Conselice , G. Costa , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , G. Daues , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Elliott , A. E. Evrard , A. Farahi , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. N. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaz tanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. S. S. Gill , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. Gower , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , S. Hamilton , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , J. M. Hislop , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Juneau , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , G. Khullar , M. Klein , A. Kovacs , A. M. G. Koziol , E. Krause , A. Kremin , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , T. S. Li , R. T. Li , A. R. Liddle , M. Lima , H. Lin , P. López-Reyes , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , J. D. Maloney , M. Manera , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , T. McClintock , T. McKay , R . G. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , J. Mould , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , D. Nidever , R. Nikutta , F. Nogueira , B. Nord , P. Nugent , L. Nunes , R. L. C. Ogando , L. Old , K. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , J. Poh , C. Pond , A. Por redon , A. Pujol , A. Refregier , K. Reil , P. M. Ricker , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , P. Rooney , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , M. L. Sanchez , B. Santiago , A. Saro , V. Scarpine , D. Scolnic , A. Scott , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Shipp , M. L. Silveira , R. C. Smith , J. A. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobre ira , J. Song , A. Stebbins , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Wal ker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , H. Wu , B. Yanny , A. Zenteno , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

Identification and photometric classification of extragalactic transients in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Data Preview 1

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon survey the southern sky, delivering a depth and sky coverage that is unprecedented in time domain astronomy. As part of commissioning, Data Preview 1 (DP1) has been released. It comprises a LSSTComCam…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 James Freeburn , Igor Andreoni , Kaylee M. de Soto , Cristina Andrade , Akash Anumarlapudi , Tyler Barna , Jonathan Carney , Sushant Sharma Chaudhary , Michael W. Coughlin , Felipe Fontinele Nunes , Sarah Teague , Mickael Rigault , V. Ashley Villar , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Federica B. Bianco , Alexandre Boucaud , Dominique Boutigny , Andrew Bradshaw , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Phil N. Daly , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Holger Drass , Laurent Le Guillou , Leanne P. Guy , Patrick Ingraham , M. James Jee , Steven M. Kahn , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Lee S. Kelvin , Didier Laporte , Shuang Liang , Nate B. Lust , Mostafa Lutfi , Gabriele Mainetti , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Felipe Menanteau , David J. Mills , Marc Moniez , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Russell E. Owen , Maria T. Patterson , John R. Peterson , Wouter van Reeven , Vincent J. Riot , William Roby , David Sanmartim , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Richard A. Shaw , Alysha Shugart , Krzysztof Suberlak , John D. Swinbank , Dan S. Taranu , Charlotte Ward , Christopher Z. Waters , W. M. Wood-Vasey

The LSST AGN Data Challenge: Selection methods

Development of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) includes a series of Data Challenges (DC) arranged by various LSST Scientific Collaborations (SC) that are taking place during the projects preoperational phase.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Đorđe V. Savić , Isidora Jankov , Weixiang Yu , Vincenzo Petrecca , Matthew J. Temple , Qingling Ni , Raphael Shirley , Andjelka B. Kovacevic , Mladen Nikolic , Dragana Ilic , Luka C. Popovic , Maurizio Paolillo , Swayamtrupta Panda , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Gordon T. Richards

The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Science Requirements Document

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) will use five cosmological probes: galaxy clusters, large scale structure, supernovae, strong lensing, and weak lensing. This Science Requirements Document…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , Rachel Mandelbaum , Tim Eifler , Renée Hložek , Thomas Collett , Eric Gawiser , Daniel Scolnic , David Alonso , Humna Awan , Rahul Biswas , Jonathan Blazek , Patricia Burchat , Nora Elisa Chisari , Ian Dell'Antonio , Seth Digel , Josh Frieman , Daniel A. Goldstein , Isobel Hook , Željko Ivezić , Steven M. Kahn , Sowmya Kamath , David Kirkby , Thomas Kitching , Elisabeth Krause , Pierre-François Leget , Philip J. Marshall , Joshua Meyers , Hironao Miyatake , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert Nichol , Eli Rykoff , F. Javier Sanchez , Anže Slosar , Mark Sullivan , M. A. Troxel

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration will study cosmic acceleration with a 5000 deg2 griZY survey in the southern sky over 525 nights from 2011-2016. The DES data management (DESDM) system will be used to process and archive these data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joseph J. Mohr , Wayne Barkhouse , Cristina Beldica , Emmanuel Bertin , Y. Dora Cai , Luiz da Costa , J. Anthony Darnell , Gregory E. Daues , Michael Jarvis , Michelle Gower , Huan Lin , leandro Martelli , Eric Neilsen , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Ricardo Ogando , Alex Parga , Erin Sheldon , Douglas Tucker , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Chris Stoughton

Integrating the PanDA Workload Management System with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will produce an unprecedented astronomical data set for studies of the deep and dynamic universe. Its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will image the entire southern sky every three to four days and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Edward Karavakis , Wen Guan , Zhaoyu Yang , Tadashi Maeno , Torre Wenaus , Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy , Fernando Barreiro Megino , Kaushik De , Richard Dubois , Michelle Gower , Tim Jenness , Alexei Klimentov , Tatiana Korchuganova , Mikolaj Kowalik , Fa-Hui Lin , Paul Nilsson , Sergey Padolski , Wei Yang , Shuwei Ye

Enabling Early Transient Discovery in LSST via Difference Imaging with DECam

We present SLIDE, a pipeline that enables transient discovery in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), using archival images from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) as templates for difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Yize Dong , Kaylee de Soto , V. Ashley Villar , Anya Nugent , Alex Gagliano , K. Azalee Bostroem , Anastasia Alexov , Éric Aubourg , Farrukh Azfar , Alexandre Boucaud , Andrew Bradshaw , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne , Phil N. Daly , Felipe Daruich , Peter E. Doherty , Holger Drass , Orion Eiger , Leanne P. Guy , Patrick A. Hascall , Željko Ivezić , Fabrice Jammes , M. James Jee , Tim Jenness , Steven M. Kahn , Yijung Kang , Lee S. Kelvin , Ivan V. Kotov , Gábor Kovács , Laurent Le Guillou , Shuang Liang , Mostafa Lutfi , Morgan May , Guillem Megias Homar , Marc Moniez , Freddy Muñoz Arancibia , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Hye Yun Park , John R. Peterson , Andrés A. Plazas Malagón , Daniel Polin , Bruno C. Quint , Tiago Ribeiro , Vincent J. Riot , Cécile Roucelle , Bruno O. Sánchez , David Sanmartim , Jacques Sebag , Nima Sedaghat , Richard A. Shaw , Alysha Shugart , Ioana Sotuela Elorriaga , Krzysztof Suberlak , John D. Swinbank , Sandrine Thomas , J. Anthony Tyson , Wouter van Reeven , Charlotte Ward , Christopher Z. Waters , Oliver Wiecha , W. M. Wood-Vasey

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Rubin Observatory after LSST

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in 2024, spanning an area of 18,000 square degrees in six bands, with more than 800 observations of each field over ten years. The unprecedented data set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 Bob Blum , Seth W. Digel , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Mustapha Ishak , Saurabh W. Jha , Steven M. Kahn , Rachel Mandelbaum , Phil Marshall , Jeffrey A. Newman , Aaron Roodman , Christopher W. Stubbs

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a project with the goal of building, installing and exploiting a new 74 CCD-camera at the Blanco telescope, in order to study the nature of cosmic acceleration. It will cover 5000 square degrees of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 I. Sevilla , R. Armstrong , E. Bertin , A. Carlson , G. Daues , S. Desai , M. Gower , R. Gruendl , W. Hanlon , M. Jarvis , R. Kessler , N. Kuropatkin , H. Lin , J. Marriner , J. Mohr , D. Petravick , E. Sheldon , M. E. C. Swanson , T. Tomashek , D. Tucker , Y. Yang , B. Yanny

Predictions for the Detectability of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies and Outer-Halo Star Clusters with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

We predict the sensitivity of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to faint, resolved Milky Way satellite galaxies and outer-halo star clusters. We characterize the expected sensitivity using simulated LSST…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Kabelo Tsiane , Sidney Mau , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Peter S. Ferguson , Keith Bechtol , Ethan O. Nadler , Annika H. G. Peter , Yao-Yuan Mao , Adam J. Thornton , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Identifying Transient Hosts in LSST's Deep Drilling Fields with Galaxy Catalogues

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will enable astronomers to discover rare and distant astrophysical transients. Host-galaxy association is crucial for selecting the most scientifically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Josh G. Weston , David R. Young , Stephen J. Smartt , Matt Nicholl , Matt J. Jarvis , I. H. Whittam

The Scientific Impact of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) for Solar System Science

Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a key facility for small body science in planetary astronomy over the next decade. It will carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), observing the sky repeatedly in u, g, r, i, z, and y over the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 Rubin Observatory LSST Solar System Science Collaboration , R. Lynne Jones , Michelle T. Bannister , Bryce T. Bolin , Colin Orion Chandler , Steven R. Chesley , Siegfried Eggl , Sarah Greenstreet , Timothy R. Holt , Henry H. Hsieh , Zeljko Ivezić , Mario Jurić , Michael S. P. Kelley , Matthew M. Knight , Renu Malhotra , William J. Oldroyd , Gal Sarid , Megan E. Schwamb , Colin Snodgrass , Michael Solontoi , David E. Trilling

The LSST Data Processing Software Stack: Summer 2015 Release

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8-m optical ground-based telescope being constructed on Cerro Pachon in Chile. LSST will survey half the sky every few nights in six optical bands. The data will be transferred to NCSA and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Tim Jenness

Uniform Rolling: An LSST Observing Cadence Offering Sufficient Survey Uniformity for Comprehensive Cosmological Analysis

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) that will be carried out by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory promises to be the defining survey of the next decade, supplying unprecedented access to the night sky to static science- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Boris Leistedt , Matthew R. Becker , Humna Awan , Eric Gawiser , Qianjun Hang , Renée Hložek , Saurabh W. Jha , R. Lynne Jones , Arun Kannawadi , Michelle Lochner , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jeffrey A. Newman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , Hiranya V. Peiris , Eli S. Rykoff , M. A. Troxel , Peter Yoachim

The Impact of Observing Strategy on Cosmological Constraints with LSST

The generation-defining Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make state-of-the-art measurements of both the static and transient universe through its Legacy Survey for Space and Time (LSST). With such capabilities, it is immensely challenging to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 Michelle Lochner , Dan Scolnic , Husni Almoubayyed , Timo Anguita , Humna Awan , Eric Gawiser , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Philippe Gris , Simon Huber , Saurabh W. Jha , R. Lynne Jones , Alex G. Kim , Rachel Mandelbaum , Phil Marshall , Tanja Petrushevska , Nicolas Regnault , Christian N. Setzer , Sherry H. Suyu , Peter Yoachim , Rahul Biswas , Tristan Blaineau , Isobel Hook , Marc Moniez , Eric Neilsen , Hiranya Peiris , Daniel Rothchild , Christopher Stubbs

Metadetection Weak Lensing for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Forthcoming astronomical imaging surveys will use weak gravitational lensing shear as a primary probe to study dark energy, with accuracy requirements at the 0.1% level. We present an implementation of the Metadetection shear measurement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-16 Erin S. Sheldon , Matthew R. Becker , Michael Jarvis , Robert Armstrong , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

The Dark Energy Survey Data Processing and Calibration System

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 deg2 grizY survey reaching characteristic photometric depths of 24th magnitude (10 sigma) and enabling accurate photometry and morphology of objects ten times fainter than in SDSS. Preparations for DES…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Joseph J. Mohr , Robert Armstrong , Emmanuel Bertin , Gregory E. Daues , Shantanu Desai , Michelle Gower , Robert Gruendl , William Hanlon , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Huan Lin , John Marriner , Don Petravick , Ignacio Sevilla , Molly Swanson , Todd Tomashek , Douglas Tucker , Brian Yanny , the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration